This Archtop Offers A Whole Lotta Bang For Your Buck! | Stellar Sound & Great Price | Guitar Review
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2022
- In this video, I show you a very nice guitar that not only sounds great but is very affordable. This is an Epiphone Broadway which is a big-bodied guitar that delivers a really nice jazz tone. In fact, I was quite impressed by the tone quality that this thing produces especially when you compare it to similar-sized archtops like a Heritage Golden Eagle. These Broadways are several thousand dollars cheaper but it's hard to tell just by the looks. Despite being made in China, the craftsmanship is very solid. How do you like the sound? Please leave me a comment and thank you for checking out my channel!
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Originally from the L.A. area, Rich has been playing professionally and teaching guitar for over thirty years. His education includes years of college and private instruction with a variety of teachers including Mitch Holder, Ted Greene, Joe Pass, and Charlie Shoemake to name a few. He feels education is a continuing process, there's always more to learn. Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Howard Roberts, Ted Greene, and Larry Carleton have all influenced his playing.
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Great playing as always! I own a few of these, a Zephyr, a Regent and two Broadways. I put Seymour Duncans in one of the Broadways and it sounds great! The best part is its price you can get a pretty nice jazzy box for under a thousand dollars. For us on limited incomes its a heaven sent.
I’ve been playing my Broadway around 4 years now, I love it!
Wow! that was fantastic, Rich!
Rich does Wes does the Beatles. That was fantastic 👍
Wes has an album. A Day in the life.
Great version of this tune. Thanks. Shally
Wow; sounds good direct to mixer. Great Video!!
i got one of these with a bigsby and gibson pickups, it's amazing
Great playing. Love it!
Great playing! Love it!
Best rendition of Eleanor Rigby I've ever heard! Beautiful sound, too!
Great playing Rich. The Broadway sounds great. Just as good looking as the Epiphone Zephyr John Lee Hooker.
Great sound man and West Montgomery influences there hip that's what I want to do when I grow up
I love you playing on this. Came to see a guitar review, stayed for Elenor Rigby.
Sweet tone, Rich. That guitar lives up to your name (:^D Not a trace of listening fatigue! I could hear that sound all day.
Rich on fire. Never mind the guitar give me that talent!
Beautiful playing
I own one. Completely modified for Rockabilly. Bigsby B6G vibrato, Tru Arc aluminum compensated bridge on an ebony base, Seymour Duncan Staple P90's neck and bridge, Toneman Guitar 50's wiring harness with PIO vintage aged K42Y-2 caps, Thomastik-Infeld flatwounds 13-53, GraphTech Tusq XL nut, Grover locking tuners and finally a Plek job. I bought the Broadway a few years back for $799. Inexpensive enough for me to install all these mods. A Poorman's 1954 Gibson Super 400 CES. Money well spent. My guitar sounds amazing!!
Rich is the undisputed guru of jazz guitar. Great player.
Thanks for sharing Rich you Da man!!
Beautiful playing.
Heck of a good guitar player you are Rich 👍
Hey Rich, thanks for the review. Your video helped me decide to get one. Mine was made in March of 2019 in Qingdao, China. It comes in warmer, vintage natural color. Yes, it’s got laminated spruce top married to laminated maple back and sides. The neck is hard maple and the fingerboard wood is Pau Ferro, which offers feel and tone between rosewood and ebony. But, the stock item is strung with 10s. I had the guitar inspected and customized. The modifications consisted of TUSQ nut slotted for 12 - 52 string gauge, D’Addario Chromes - Flat Wound, Gibson ‘57 Classic Humbuckers, and low action setup.
By the way, your tailpiece is reversed, but as you say, it works well with your custom string gauge. I’ve gotta tell you. Despite its L-5 dimensions and tone wood combination, I find the guitar quite comfortable and not very heavy. It is easy to play and sounds really great through my BluesCube Artist. It does cause feedback if it’s too close to the amp, so it’s something to be aware of. I think the modifications were a good choice. Despite being made in China, there are no flaws in the finish, and I find the whole guitar a fine piece of workmanship. For me, this Customized Epiphone Broadway is a premium jazz box. I may install a Tune-o-matic bridge for archtop, or even change the tailpiece in the future. But for now, I’ll leave that vintage look intact.
Im thinking of putting a Gibby 57 or Duncan 59 at the neck on mine. I like it more than some American and a Korean arch tops i had which had a superior components..very comfortable neck! Go figure..😊till I’m getting rich and buy a Benedetto, this will do the trick.
Rich
I’m a blues player , the guys I jam with found out my secret. I also like jazz, I sprung it on them recently. I’m considering the broadway as my starter jazz box. I like all styles of music, it gets loud playing together . Jazz is my ear break you can hear all the instruments. Your playing is great as usual !
Love your channel
Just got in a Epi Joe Pass that might work for you. Email me at rich@guitarcollege.com so when its ready I can let you know
Nice Eleanor Rigby intro!!
Do you know anything about the hagstrom jazz models? The hj800 in particular.
Nice trick to hold onto the pick while doing octaves with the thumb! (Have you ever dropped it while doing that?)
Amazing!!!!
Probably my favourite Beatles song - beautiful arrangement. I bought this guitar around 20 years ago on sale, around USD 400. I'm not a jazz player but really wanted a nice jazz style for the occasional time I need to 'fake' some jazz for a TV commercial job. It's a lovely instrument - also great for chimey 'Beatlish' arpeggiated pop stuff in the middle position. Thanks for the review!
Beatles song??
@@PedroMiguel-if3ll Eleanor Rigby
Rich , your performance on this Broadway is spectacular , and the little customized adjustment you made to the bridge pickup also makes this Epiphone sounding wonderful . By the way , , would you ever own a Byrdland ? I couldn't imagine they would sound much better than this Broadway of yours !
Hey Sadie Lamp Duo! I actually just got a Byrdland the other day! It's a cool guitar! I will be doing a video on it in the next couple weeks. I still need to work on it but once it is done I will feature it. I think it will sound better than this broadway!
Hi Rich. Are you playing the Broadway through the Quilter Cub? That would be interesting to compare.
Great playing as always! How's the fretwork? I have an Epi Joe Pass and I had to file down the fret edges on it. Other than that and a fiddly input jack it's pretty nice.
Hey Ben! Thanks for the comment! I filed down the fret edges on this one, but that is pretty common. I sometimes have to do it on my Eastmans or Guilds as well.
Of course you mentioned it’s affordable, Fantastic playing & wonderful sound…
Any guitar that allows for a proper setup, usually works very well.
Nice! I own and play a elite model, made I Japan…I feel that it is superior to the one being played I the video, in many ways…what do you think?
Sounds great ! But on your advice I got an Epiphone Joe Pass Emperor II at about the same price and construction.
Hey Rich. What sort of washers do you use to raise the pick up frame off the wood?
They are just really thin small washers that cost about 10 cents each. I bought some in gold and some in silver depending on what the hardware color is. I just get them at my local hardware store. I have been meaning to do a video on this for a while and will get to it soon! Thanks for watching, Botched it!
Very few can play the octaves this perfect, in such a fluid Wes´ way :) but then came the pick. Why not going full Wes ?
Merci pour cette très belle vidéo pourriez-vous me donner la référence de vos cordes filet rond ou filet plat merci de votre réponse
When you say you've raised the pickups off the top to let the top vibrate more, what exactly did you do (I own one of these and would like to try that, as well). By the way, mine is Korean made, and is very light weight.
Hey srfgrn! Thanks for the question!
I put very tiny washers under the corners of the pickup rings so only the washers rest on the top and not the entire pickup ring. I think it makes the top more resonant which improves the sound a bit!
@@RichSeversonGuitar Thanks much! I'm going to give it a try. I enjoy your demos and your playing -- just wished I could make my Broadway sing like you've demonstrated!
Awesome
I own The Broadway its a great guitar you can make the pick up surrounds look like mahogany by taking the shiny finish off with a fine grade wire wool or 2000 grit wet and dry. Nothing more horrible than shiny black plastic.
The bridge length offset is opposite of the Riviera. The Riviera has a better offset for setup.
I thought it sounded excellent!! If a guitar doesn't impede your playing physically or sonically, then it's a good guitar.
Great version of Eleanor Rigby.
Are those stock pickups or ?
What do you do when you have to many guitars and not enough room?
I read that you have to put better pick-ups in it to sound good. How many lbs does it weigh?
Was this beginning elonor rigdby? Holy smokes this sound poor gold
I torn between this and the Pass model.
Had this guitar many moons ago but never made it sound like that. LOL
Cookin’…
If I close my eyes, I hear Wes Montgomery (until you speak LOL).
👍🌞
I would put a Duncan 59’on it or a Gibson 57’ at the neck which would bring the value of it to an elite level. Did the same to my Emperor JP…a world apart..miles and miles away. How do they make it so cheap? Well..ask Karl Marx I guess..
Eleanor Rigby is the creepiest song in the Beatle’s catalog.
Had a Joe Pass Epiphone years ago : pretty lame sound electrically and worse acoustically. The fact that the top is laminated, which you mentioned, and the back and sides are also laminated, which was not mentioned, make this a cheap guitar in terms of quality and price. So the woods and the luthiery make for a beginner's guitar made in China.
It does look nice and your playing is good but it's harder to copy the sound and feel of a Gibson than it is to copy the basic look. You get what you pay for.
Thanks for putting up these archtop videos.
Can you do some videos with the pickups not in the body, which dampens the acoustic sound? A Gibson L7 or an L5 for example would be appreciated. You can also compare similar archtops - with a suspended pickup vs. with a pickup(s) in the body.
Did that awhile ago here's the link ua-cam.com/video/o4H5vdSNBxs/v-deo.html
I have owned numerous fine archtops over the years including a '29 L4, a '39 L7, a '53 and '55 L7, a '77 Byrdland, a '77 L5ces, two Guild Artist Awards and other carved tops. I also owned a '49, a '53 and a '55 ES175 and two Guild X-175s. Sadly had to part with them over the years to stay afloat. I now play an offshore made Epiphone Joe Pass and a Broadway and I am very happy with both of them and not just because they are affordable. They play well, look great and sound very good. Not fair to compare an all lamiated Epi Broadway to an all carved L5ces. Personally I am thankful to have the pleasure to play and own these instruments. Remember, Herb Ellis and Joe Pass played all laminated ES 175s and they sounded incredible. To each his own.
I was going to watch this but you started out with the
Bleatles. Made it about 5seconds & left. sorry
Hmm, interesting comment. Why can't it be the guitar of a life time? It's not the guitar it's the guitarist. This is perfectly capable of outlasting any human. I'm sure it will be here long after all of us are gone, if you treat is as you would any guitar you care for. And it's a good guitar. Even if it is "just" an Epiphone. Never understood this elitist type of attitude. I have a 1986 Epiphone and I tell you, it's not lasting any worse than my much newer Gibson ES335. Can't say it plays worse either. By the way, your frequensator is reversed. They come the other way around from the factory. The shorter holder is on the bass strings. And your comment about the frequensator's effects is also off, unless I misunderstood you.
I wouldn't say that my attitude is "elitist" lol. I would simply say that people strive their whole lives to get a guitar like a Gibson L5 or a Super 400. They don't wait their whole lives to buy one of these Epiphones. They will all last a lifetime if you take care of them... but this Epiphone doesn't take a lifetime to acquire... like a vintage Gibson L5 would. Thanks for your comment but I think you took this way out of context.
@@RichSeversonGuitar Ok, in that case maybe you could have phrased it a little differently. It definitely didn't come across as you explained above. ;) Besides, there might be someone who's end goal is a Broadway, why not? Or even one of the original Broadways, which although I haven't looked, might not cost too much less than a L5. Regardless, I sold a Gibson Les Paul because the Epiphone version was honestly on pair as a player. No reason to keep the Gibson around if there were people willing to pay 3 times what the Epiphone was worth.
When these came out, they were MIJ (Made In Japan), just heard Rich say these are made in China. If you can find an MIJ, jump on it, MIC,.........PASS. BTW, all Epiphones are now made in Shandong China. Always go for MIJ over any other Asian made guitar. There's Japanese made, and then there's all the rest.
I had one when I was kid and absolutely hated it and it was my expensive guitar ($850ish). The worst thing about it was I tried selling it for years and absolutely no one would buy It so in the end basically gave it away for $350 with a case. Its pretty, but that's about it.
Where was it made ? P.S. Tommy, please answer Today, and not Tomorrow. Thanks
Doesn't matter were it was made it ether it's great or it sucks...
I got a Greyish it's amazing ! I don't care about who made it ....
@@wingnutbreakfast5054 .....Good for you, play a damn cracker box for all I care. Guitars aren't great by accident, it's woods and workmanship, the Japanese made guitars are superior to all other Asian countries. If you don't have the extra bucks to get an MIJ, I understand, .... so go home and get your damn shine box and hit the streets. Another 6 months or so, you'll come up with the diff. Til then, go practice your arpeggios on that cheese box of yours. Hope ya' don't "settle" for ladies like ya' do guitars. ...just sayin'